Taken Up and Thrown Down

Sunday 15th January 2023
Read: Hebrews 1:1-14; Psalm 102

Sermon: Psalm 102

1-2. A request for same day service in the day of distress

3-11. All day, every day distress

12-22. “Now would be a good time to do what I’m sure you will do”

23-24. A plea of desperate last resort

25-28. Who laid the earth’s foundation? Whose children shall dwell secure? Who was taken up and thrown down for us? Hebrews 1:1-14; Matthew 26:39

 

“Taken up” = exalted & borne or carried-

Is 6:1 I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up;

Lev 16:22 The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself

Is 52:13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.

Is 53:12 he bore the sin of many;

Lk 9:51 “When the days drew near for him to be taken up he set his face to go to Jerusalem.”

 

“Thrown down”,

Gen 37:20 Joseph “thrown down” 

I Kings 14:9 = “casting away from someone’s presence or face,”

Jer 22:19 = “dumped”: shameful burial, like a donkey’s; 

ALSO = God’s total forgiveness of sin Mic 7:19, God casts the sins of his people into the depths of the sea forever[1]

 

If your days seem as solid as smoke, if your courage has withered, if sleep deserts you, you can’t bear to eat and you feel friendless, the object of taunting… “It’s time” to pray Ps 102 in the confidence that Jesus has prayed it for you, He was “taken up and thrown down” so that your sins could be “cast into the depths of the sea forever” Your prayer will be heard in His name.